SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — An offender serving two life sentences at the Sioux Falls prison has died.

A news release from the Department of Corrections says Steven Satter was serving two life terms for second degree murder in Codington County. Satter was 77. Satter had multiple appeals to the State Supreme Court. All were denied.

KELOLAND News’ Nancy Sutton covered Satter’s escape from the state prison in 1977. Video shows officers locating and returning him to the prison.

Satter escaped the Sioux Falls Penitentiary in July of 1977 and was on the run for eight days with two other prisoners. Satter was found at a gas station near Madison when he stopped to buy a pop. The clerk then called officials and Satter was taken back into custody. Satter said to officials “thanks for the ride” upon his return to Sioux Falls.

The Lake County Sheriff at the time of the escape said Satter was “just plain tired and hungry.” Details of the 1972 murders can be read in this South Dakota Supreme Court opinion from 1976.

A law case website said Satter killed Jerry Wayne Bowling and Kent Harold Engle on Aug. 20, 1972 near Lake Pelican in Codington County. The bodies were found on April 1, 1973, in a rock pile near Kranzburg in Codington County.

Satter is the fifth inmate to die in DOC custody this year.